8 awesome new jQuery plugins to have in your toolbox

Posted on Mar 07, 2011

jQuery is by far my favorite Javascript framework, which allows developers to create stunning visual effects, manipulate data properly, and much more. In this article, I have compiled 8 new and totally awesome jQuery plugins that all web developers should have in their toolbox.

jQuery Mobile

Due to the popularity of mobile devices such as the iPhone or the BlackBerry, websites are now going mobile. jQuery Mobile is a complete framework that allow you to easily create killer mobile sites. If you want an example or a demo, just have a look to this tutorial I’ve wrote a few months ago. And if you want me to build your mobile site, I’m your cat man. Just send me an email.

jCycle

Uniforms

Web forms are an essential aspect of a website, but theyr visual aspect is often neglected. Uniforms helps you to give a gorgeous look and feel to forms elements such as radio buttons or select drop downs, which are generally a pain to style using pure CSS.

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Columnizer

Thanks to CSS3, it is now possible to display a text on X different columns easily. But as you can guess, Internet Explorer doesn’t support CSS3 yet, which means that we have to find an alternative solution to use columns on the web. Happilly, columnizer is here to help. This neat jQuery plugin will help you to render your text on columns easily.

Isotope

Isotope is definitely an incredible jQuery plugin which allow you to create dynamic and intelligent layouts. You can hide and reveal items with filtering, re-order them with sorting, and a lot more. Of course, Isotope allow lots of cool animations. A definitive must-see for all web developers.

jqDnR

jqDnR is a lightweight plugin for jQuery that lets you drag, drop, and resize elements. The plugin is simple, lightweight (972 bytes) and extremely easy to implement. A great way to make your website more user-friendly.

jQuery Touchwipe

Do you want to create awesome images galleries for your mobile websites? If yes, then jQuery Touchwipe won’t deceive you. This plugin allows you to obtain the wipe event on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch which can be used for example to scroll through an image gallery. The plugin is only 1kb and works on Android as well.